Lacra Pavel

Lăcrămioara (Lăcră) Pavel (born 1965)[1] is a Romanian and Canadian game theorist and electrical engineer whose research applies game theory to network controllability for communications networks and transport networks. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto.

Education and career

Pavel graduated from the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași in Romania in 1989. She received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1996, from Queen's University at Kingston in Ontario, Canada.[2]

She was a postdoctoral researcher for National Research Council Canada and then worked in industry before returning to academia in 2002, as a faculty member at the University of Toronto.[2] She was promoted to full professor in 2013.[3]

Book

Pavel is the author of the book Game Theory for Control of Optical Networks (Birkhäuser, 2012).[4]

Recognition

Pavel was named to the 2025 class of IEEE Fellows "for contributions to game theory, control, and optimization for network systems".[5]

References

  1. ^ Full name and birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2024-12-19
  2. ^ a b Pavel, Lacra, Biography, retrieved 2024-12-19
  3. ^ ECE announces six faculty promotions, University of Toronto Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, August 8, 2013, retrieved 2024-12-19
  4. ^ Reviews of Game Theory for Control of Optical Networks: Luca Moscardelli, MR2919645; Vivek S. Borkar, Zbl 1242.91036
  5. ^ IEEE Fellow Class of 2025 (PDF), IEEE, retrieved 2024-12-19